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jmvidalvia

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Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 23

Sound stopped working after years being fine

Hi,
Sincerely, I have no clue to where start looking for.

[root@myArch jm]# uname -a
Linux myArch 4.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 29 22:36:45 CEST 2015 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks,

Last edited by jmvidalvia (2015-10-03 17:03:08)

nonfictive

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Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 19

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

What are you using for your sound first of all alsa or pulseaudio.

jmvidalvia

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Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 23

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

Sorry, alsa.

nonfictive

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Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 19

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

Ok Nice one, type this command in your terminal
cat /proc/asound/cards
and then send me your output of it.

jmvidalvia

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Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 23

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

Sure,

[root@myArch jm]# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xf2620000 irq 32

firekage

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From: Eastern Europe, Poland

Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 624

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

Check with lsmod command if driver works:

 lsmod | grep snd

there shoud be something like snd-intel.

jmvidalvia

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Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 23

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

Here it is:

[root@myArch jm]# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_conexant    20480  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    65536  1 snd_hda_codec_conexant
snd_hda_intel          28672  3
snd_hda_codec          94208  3 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_core           45056  4 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              16384  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                77824  3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core
snd_timer              28672  1 snd_pcm
snd                    57344  14 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,thinkpad_acpi
soundcore              16384  1 snd

nonfictive

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Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 19

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

Ok jmvidalvia to get your sound working now do this
open your terminal and type sudo vim /etc/asound.conf
and inside of that file copy and paste this

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
}

ctl.!default {
    type hw
    card 1
}

Then save the file,

And then reboot and your sound should work, your welcome.

Last edited by nonfictive (2015-10-03 20:30:05)

jmvidalvia

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Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 23

Re: Sound stopped working after years being fine

I am afraid that didn't work.
I even could not access anymore to alsa-mixer
BTW /etc/asound.conf was not in my system previously...